Hello, I'm here to inform you about one of the most magical trees to ever grace this earth. Let just start by saying, you all have a medical cannabis program because you all recognized that it has medical value. It has medicinal qualities and in this day and age, that cannot be denied anymore. The FDA has a long standing policy that cannabis has no medical value and we all have proved that wrong.. the SAME THING comes with kratom. FDA says no medical value, if you listen to the 15 million Americans that this tree has DRASTICALLY increased their quality of life, allowed people to return to being fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters. It allows people such as myself who would otherwise walk with a cane, work 60 hour weeks in a cooler cutting steaks. I'm a Hello, I'm here to inform you about one of the most magical trees to ever grace this earth. Let just start by saying, you all have a medical cannabis program because you all recognized that it has medical value. It has medicinal qualities and in this day and age, that cannot be denied anymore. The FDA has a long standing policy that cannabis has no medical value and we all have proved that wrong.. the SAME THING comes with kratom. FDA says no medical value, if you listen to the 15 million Americans that this tree has DRASTICALLY increased their quality of life, allowed people to return to being fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters. It allows people such as myself who would otherwise walk with a cane, work 60 hour weeks in a cooler cutting steaks. I'm a productive member of society now. And I can literally only account that to kratom. From ages 15-24 I trusted doctors and they turned me into a drug addict with the drugs they prescribed me. Dangerous drugs. DEADLY drugs. The next thing I'm going to say, I truly hope you all do your research. Because the NIH already had Congressional meetings and they even said that nobody has died from pure unadulterated kratom. There were only four people out of the 60 deaths that didn't have any drugs in their system other than kratom. Their blood was analyzed by NIH. They realize that they had other drugs in their system such as research chemicals. New novel drugs that are being developed daily and all they have to do is change one chemical compound to keep them legal. Those drugs are flooding the market and you could easily purchase them online. Pure unadulterated kratom has been used for 2,000 years safely. It's used safely by 15 million Americans. The only thing a Virginia kratom ban will do is send productive members of society who have been contributing to the Virginia economy back to drugs, back to opiates, back to being people who cannot contribute anything to society because of one reason or another. Pain, depression, anxiety, it doesn't matter. Anybody over the age of 28 has some sort of problems. The only thing we should be telling them to take is kratom and not some chemical and a pill that has only been around for 100 years. That has been proven time and time again to be absolute poison and destroy the human body. I'm 35 years old and I've never been in better health in my life other than now, since I quit the chemicals from doctors. I take cannabis and kratom only and have never been in better health, physically and emotionally. When I was on drugs from doctors I felt like I was near death every single day. I will continue to push people towards nature and tell people how much drugs have destroyed Everybody's lives. Any Doctor who pushes anybody for pain or anxiety or depression to drugs instead of something that nature has provided us is the most asinine thing I've ever heard. Those chemical drugs are deadly and addictive and dangerous. Nature is not. I implore you to listen to the American kratom association and the NIH. productive member of society now. And I can literally only account that to kratom. From ages 15-24 I trusted doctors and they turned me into a drug addict with the drugs they prescribed me. Dangerous drugs. DEADLY drugs. The next thing I'm going to say, I truly hope you all do your research. Because the NIH already had Congressional meetings and they even said that nobody has died from pure unadulterated kratom. There were only four people out of the 60 deaths that didn't have any drugs in their system other than kratom. Their blood was analyzed by NIH. They realize that they had other drugs in their system such as research chemicals. New novel drugs that are being developed daily and all they have to do is change one chemical compound to keep them legal. Those drugs are flooding the market and you could easily purchase them online. Pure unadulterated kratom has been used for 2,000 years safely. It's used safely by 15 million Americans. The only thing a Virginia kratom ban will do is send productive members of society who have been contributing to the Virginia economy back to drugs, back to opiates, back to being people who cannot contribute anything to society because of one reason or another. Pain, depression, anxiety, it doesn't matter. Anybody over the age of 28 has some sort of problems. The only thing we should be telling them to take is kratom and not some chemical and a pill that has only been around for 100 years. That has been proven time and time again to be absolute poison and destroy the human body. I'm 35 years old and I've never been in better health in my life other than now, since I quit the chemicals from doctors. I take cannabis and kratom only and have never been in better health, physically and emotionally. When I was on drugs from doctors I felt like I was near death every single day. I will continue to push people towards nature and tell people how much drugs have destroyed Everybody's lives. Any Doctor who pushes anybody for pain or anxiety or depression to drugs instead of something that nature has provided us is the most asinine thing I've ever heard. Those chemical drugs are deadly and addictive and dangerous. Nature is not. I implore you to listen to the American kratom association and the NIH.